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Global Catastrophic Risks
Hughes, J. 2007.
"Global Technology Regulation and Potentially Apocalyptic Technological Threats," , in
Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology (2007)
Hughes, J. 2008.
"Millennial Tendencies in Responses to Apocalyptic Threats" in
Global Catastrophic Risks eds. Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic. Oxford University Press. 2008. pgs 72-89
Bostrom, N.
"Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards"
Bostrom, N.
"Dinosaurs, Dodos, Humans?" (pdf) by Nick Bostrom
Posner, R.
Catastrophe: Risk and Response
Leslie, J.
The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction
Rees, M.
Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future In This Century - On Earth and Beyond
Matheny, J.
"Reducing the risk of human extinction"
OECD. 2003.
Emerging Systemic Risks in the 21st Century: An Agenda for Action (pdf)
World Economic Forum. 2006.
Global Risks 2006 (pdf)
Ikle, F.
Annihilation from Within: The Ultimate Threat to Nations
Hanson, R. 2007.
"Catastrophe, Social Collapse, and Human Extinction" (pdf)
Freitas, R.
"Some Limits to Global Ecophagy, with Public Policy Recommendations" .
Joy, B. 2000.
"Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" Wired Magazine.
Leslie, J. 1996.
The End of the World
Matheny, J. 2006.
Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction
Posner, R. 2004.
Catastrophe: Risk and Response
Preston, R. 2002.
The Demon in the Freezer
Rees, M. 2003.
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